Toothless suspender-buckle.



A. VAN BRUNT.

TOOTHLESS SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 26, 1913.

Patented J an. 11, 1916.

w vtmaooc o I THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON. D. c.

a similar sectional view UNKTEE PATENT FFEQFL.

I ABRAM VAN BRUNT, 0F BRGGKLYN, NEVI EGRK, ASSIGNOE TO VIATERBUR-Y BUCKLE COMPANY, OF WATEEBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

TQOTHLESS SUSPE1TDER-BUGKLE Specification of Letters Patent.-

Patented Jan. 11, 1916.

to generally improve upon the construction of toothless rustless buckles by simplifying and cheapeningtheir construction, and to provide a buckle which will operate to clamp the edge portions of the webbing rather than the central portion in a manner to hold the edge portions of the webbing more tightly as is particularly desirable for some classes of webbing, and further to so design the structure that the clamping members will be in the form of arms or lingers that yieldably engage the webbing in the clamping operations, so as not to cut or mar the webbing.

Upon the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification 1 have shown several views of my improved buckle some of which are illustrated in connection with a piece of Suspender webbing such. as the buckle is designed to be used upon.

Throughout the figures of these drawings similar letters of reference are used to indicate like or corresponding parts and of which- Figure 1, shows a front perspective view of my improved buckle attached to a piece of webbing and 1n an open position, that is with the finger lever raised. Fig. 2, is an end view of the buckle in an open position. Fig. 3, is a front view of the buckle with finger lever raised. Fig. 4, is a rear view of the buckle in closed position. Fig. 5, shows a central vertical section of buckle, in open position, with webbing attached and strung through the buckle, and, Fig. 6, shows a of buckle and webbing, the buckle being in a closed position to clamp the running. portlon of the webbing.

Referring to the drawings it will be seen i that my present buckle comprises three parts,

a sheet metal operating or lever member having pivotally connected to it two wire clamp-- ing members which are operated eccentrlc to against the horizontal bar.

In detail 10 represents the before-mentioned sheet metal lever member and in the upper end portion of which is formed sockets 11-11 to receive the upper and pivotal bar 12 of the clamping side arm member 13 which is pivotally connected to it. A second pair of pintle sockets 14: are also formed upon the said lever member, but below the before-mentioned sockets 11 for the side arm clamping member. In these sockets 14 is pivoted the pivotal ends 15 of the clamping bar member 16 which coacts with the side arms in clamping the webbing. The pivotal connection of the two said clamping members with the lever member are close to and eccentric with each other and so arranged that when the lever is closed down as in clamping a piece of webbing the pivotal bar 12 of the side arm member will be thrown forward over the ends of the clamping bar member in a way to relieve the strain upon the operating lever member and still serve to clamp the webbing attached and threaded therebetween.

The clamping bar member includes vertically disposed parallel end bars 17 and offset lower corners which form guide loops 18 for the clamping side arms 19 of the co-acting member.

20 represents the horizontal clamping bar of the clamping bar member 16, and which serves as the portion of the buckle to which the end portion 21 of the webbing is attached. This attachment of the webbing to the buckle may be made by a single row of stitches extended across the width of the webbing in the usual or any preferred manner.

The second wire clamping member 13 includes a straight horizontal upper bar 12 which passes through the upper sockets 11 of the lever member and serve to form the pivotal connection between the said member and the lever. It further includes clownwardly disposed side arms 19 that are peculiarly formed to operate through the guides 18 of the clamping bar member and have their extreme lower free end portions disposed inwardly and upwardly across the front or" the clamping bar 20 to form fingers 22 that operate vertically to and from the front side of the clamping bar 20 of the clamping bar member to clamp the edges of the running portion 28 of the webbing against the end of the webbing attached to the said clamping bar. These side arms, as will be noted, extend rearward slightly from the pintle bar 12 and then extend down alike on each side representing, as seen in Fig. 2, substantially an S shape so that in operation they will be thrown in different planes. The lower and rearward extended portions 2 1 01 these side arms in operation, slidably engage the upper edge portion 25 of the guides 18 of the clamping bar member and in the closing operation of the buckle serve to co-act to deflect the yieldable fingers 22 against the webbing and to ward the clamping bar to clamp the web bing.

'Ihe webbing as, before stated is attached to the horizontal clamping bar and is disposed down and returned again to form a loop and in which a wire ring 26 is supported. The webbing is then threaded through the two clamping members of the buckle by passing the end'of the webbing up between the finger ends 22 and the side arm member and the clamping bar 20 01":

the clai ping bar member 13 and then disposed rearward from the said clamping bar and upward past the pivotal connections of the side arm members and the clamping bar member with the lever member so as to completely cover the whole of the back of the buckle so as to protect it from the body of the wearer and prevent its becoming moistened and rusting,

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a rustless suspender buckle, the combination with a loop like clamping bar member having a horizontal clamping bar at its lower end, of a clamping side arm member including two side arms that extend through the loop and having lower yieldable free end portions that extend across the clamping bar and which co-act with the clamping bar of the clamping bar member, and a lever member with which the upper ends of the said clamping bar member and clamping side arm member are eccentrically connected for moving the said members in the performance of their clamping functions.

2. In a 'rustless suspender buckle, the combination with a loop like clamping bar member having a horizontal clamping bar at its lower end, of a side clamping arm member ln'cludlng two side arms havlng yieldable free end portions that extend member having a horizontal clamping bar at its lower end, of a clamping side arm member including two yieldable arms which extend through the loop and below the said clamping bar and having free end portions that are curved across and adapted to co-act therewith 1n clamping the webbing and the said members havlng interlocked sliding connection, and a lever member withwhich.

the upper ends of the said clamping bar member and clamping side bar member are eccentrically connected.

4:. A buckle comprising a sliding side arm clamp, a clamping bar member and lever member, the clamp having a top member in pivotal connection with the lever member, end bars connected to the top member and including yieldable side arms and clamping members, the clamping bar member having a lower bar arranged at the rear of the end portions of the side arm clampingmembers, and loops to guide the side arm clamping members, upright bars rising from the loops out of line with the lower bar, and top pintle ends in pivotal engagement with the lever member and eccentric with relation to the pivotal bar of the side arm clamping member and the lever member.

5. A buckle comprising a lever member, a

end portions disposed inward and acrossthe' front of the horizontal clamping bar of the clamping bar member, the two said clamping members being eccentric one with relation to the other so that in the operation of the said lever member the two said clamping bars will be moved to and from each other to clamp the webbing therebetween.

, 6. The combination with a buckle having a clamping bar member and a side clamping arm member that are vertically slidable with relation to each other, each said members having an upper bar and the clamping bar member having a lower clamping bar,

a lever and means connecting the lever and. the upper bars of the two SfllCl'IIlBIIlbGIS,

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Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents vertical movement to said side clamping arms and the said lower bar so as to cause the same to approach each other to clamp the running portion of the webbing.

Signed at WaterbuI-y, in the county of NewI-Iaven and State of Connecticut this 19th day ofSeptember A. D., 1913.

' Y ABRAM VAN BRUNT. Witnesses:

ROSWELL A. Moons, JAs. A. BRENNEIS.

each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

